The thermal sensors of Intel(R) CPUs can be detected by CPUID instruction, indicated by CPUID.06H.EAX[0]. CC: Andrew Morton CC: Jean Delvare CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde Reviewed-By: Valdis Kletnieks --- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 34 +++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) Index: head/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c =================================================================== --- head.orig/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c +++ head/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c @@ -451,28 +451,20 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void) for_each_online_cpu(i) { struct cpuinfo_x86 *c = &cpu_data(i); - - /* check if family 6, models 0xe (Pentium M DC), - 0xf (Core 2 DC 65nm), 0x16 (Core 2 SC 65nm), - 0x17 (Penryn 45nm), 0x1a (Nehalem), 0x1c (Atom), - 0x1e (Lynnfield) */ - if ((c->cpuid_level < 0) || (c->x86 != 0x6) || - !((c->x86_model == 0xe) || (c->x86_model == 0xf) || - (c->x86_model == 0x16) || (c->x86_model == 0x17) || - (c->x86_model == 0x1a) || (c->x86_model == 0x1c) || - (c->x86_model == 0x1e))) { - - /* supported CPU not found, but report the unknown - family 6 CPU */ - if ((c->x86 == 0x6) && (c->x86_model > 0xf)) - printk(KERN_WARNING DRVNAME ": Unknown CPU " - "model 0x%x\n", c->x86_model); - continue; + /* + * CPUID.06H.EAX[0] indicates whether the CPU has thermal + * sensors. We check this bit only, all the early CPUs + * without thermal sensors will be filtered out. + */ + if (c->cpuid_level >= 6 && (cpuid_eax(0x06) & 0x01)) { + err = coretemp_device_add(i); + if (err) + goto exit_devices_unreg; + + } else { + printk(KERN_INFO DRVNAME ": CPU (model=0x%x)" + " has no thermal sensor.\n", c->x86_model); } - - err = coretemp_device_add(i); - if (err) - goto exit_devices_unreg; } if (list_empty(&pdev_list)) { err = -ENODEV; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/